Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.

Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.

Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.

Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.

Collection of important essays by feminist scholars from cultural studies, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, and women’s studies.

Essays on Beauvoir’s influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.

Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.

A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.

Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.

Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.

An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.

Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.

New and classic essays on Antigone and feminist philosophy.

Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.

Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.

Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.

Explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.

Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.

How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.

The essential companion to Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated novel.

A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.

A philosophical questioning of reading and writing that focuses on metaphors of women and women's roles in our cultural and intellectual heritage.

Provides the first English translation of the Tibetan and Chinese texts on monastic discipline for Buddhist nuns and presents a comparative study of the two texts. An important contribution for studies of women’s history, feminist philosophy, women’s studies, women in religion, and feminist ethics.